barretry

[ bar-i-tree ]

noun

, Law.

1. barratry.

Example Sentences

Persistent Sirs: "Barretry: The offense of exciting lawsuits; the bringing of suits in the name of fictitious plaintiffs, or without a real person's consent; also, the stirring up of quarrels, spreading false rumors of evil import, thus disturbing the public peace; commonly confounded with barratry."

From Time Magazine Archive

He has commonly once a term a trial of skill with some other professor of the noble science of contention at the several weapons of bill and answer, forgery, perjury, subornation, champarty, affidavit, common barretry, maintenance, &c., and though he come off with the worst, he does not greatlv care so he can but have another bout for it.

From Project Gutenberg